My primary research focuses on two-sided markets, especially on platform competition, and the impact of technology on firms’ strategy. Technology has challenged the underlying foundations of business and firms must evaluate and change strategies accordingly. I study the interaction of technology and economic theory, and my findings indicate that conventional wisdom and rules of thumb derived in standard economic situations provides insufficient guidance to firms engaged in the platform competition inherent in technology-based industries.
Articles
Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information (with Yaron Yehezkel), American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (2014)
In the context of platform competition in a two-sided market, we study how ex-ante uncertainty...
When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? (with Ramon Casadesus-Masanell), Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (2014)
We present a theory for why it might be rational for a platform to limit...
When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in MenuSetting Ability (with David Goldreich), Management Science (2014)
Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature argues that individuals' apparent preference for...
Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences, Games and Economic Behavior (2010)
This paper investigates the causes and welfare consequences of unravelling in two-sided matching markets. It...
Popular Press
When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them? (with Mikolaj Jan Piskorski), The CPI Antitrust Journal (2010)
Working Papers
Monotone Strategyproofness (with Guillaume Haeringer) (2013)
We propose a way to compare the extent of manipulations between two strategies in preference...
The Unfairness Trap: A Key Missing Factor in the Economic Theory of Discrimination (with Jordan Siegel and Naomi Kodama), HBS Working Papers (2013)
Prior evidence linking increased female representation in management to corporate performance has been surprisingly mixed,...
The Role of Coordination Bias in Platform Competition (with Yaron Yehezkel), NET Institute Working Papers (2012)
This paper considers platform competition in a two-sided market that includes buyers and sellers. One...
Better-reply Dynamics in Deferred Acceptance Games (with Guillaume Haeringer), HBS Working Papers (2011)
In this paper we address the question of learning in a two-sided matching mechanism that...
Competing by Restricting Choice: The Case of Search Platforms (with Mikolaj Jan Piskorski), HBS Working Papers (2011)
We show that a two-sided platform can successfully compete by limiting the choice of potential...
Course Development Materials
Tequila Mobile SA (with Jerzy Surma and Aldo Sesia), HBS Case (712-453) and Teaching Note (712-473) (2012)
Wojciech Woziwodzki, co-founder, president, and CEO of Tequila Mobile SA, a mobile games developer, publisher,...
Developing an App for That: Mobile Application Strategy (Banking) (with Joshua Gans and Nathaniel Burbank), HBS Case (711-415) and Teaching Note (711-535) (2011)
At a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices...
If We Ran The World (with Radka Dohnalova and Aldo Sesia), HBS Case (711-490) and Teaching Note (712-413) (2011)
Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum...
One Game to Rule Them All: Lord of the Rings Online and the MMO Market (with William Collis, Rob McKeon, and Ivan Nausieda), HBS Case (711- 529) and Teaching Note (712-435) (2011)
Turbine Inc. is releasing a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game, The Lord of the Rings...
Chances Are? Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg (with Aldo Sesia), HBS Case (711-449) and Teaching Note (711-449) (2010)
The case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and...